George Santos compared himself to Rosa Parks, saying he also refuses to "sit in the back" like some want him too
Yes, George, being indicted for a series of breathtakingly stupid crimes like using fake checks to rip off dog breeders is EXACTLY like protesting racial segregation. If you really think about it, the paralleLOLs don't stop there — this is JUST like the time Harriet Tubman was bailed out by her father for wire fraud, and who could forget that fateful day when Mother Theresa settled with the Brazilian government for using stolen funds to buy herself fancy sneakers? Someone build this man a statue immediately. [RETWEET THAT!]
Take Action: Demand Elon ban white supremacists from Twitter!
VIDEO OF THE DAY: Rudy Giuliani hit with the bad news he's been waiting for
A top bar disciplinary committee in Washington, DC, just recommended the former mayor of New York and beleaguered Trump lackey lose his license to practice law for making false, frivolous, and harmful claims about the 2020 election. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Take Action: Call for more LGBTQ+ judges to be appointed to the federal bench!
Tucker Carlson gets nightmare news about his show
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Yikes.
Families with transgender kids are increasingly forced to travel out of state for the care they need
The right-wing crusade to force queer people back into the shadows is going precisely as planned, as 20 states have enacted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming care for trans minors. For more than a decade prior, transgender care — endorsed by major medical associations — was available to children and teens across the US, but Republicans are doing their damnedest to ruthlessly invade other people's privacy and make medical decisions for which they are completely unqualified, no matter the consequences.
Take Action: Keep foreign money out of US elections!
Republican officials brawl in wild ball-kicking, rib-cracking battle in Michigan
A Republican meeting in Clare, Michigan, turned into fight night over the weekend when two local GOP figures got into a pathetic, physical brawl over access to the event. "[James Chapman] kicked me in my balls as soon as I opened the door," Clare County Republican Party Chair Mark DeYoung said out loud to an actual reporter from an emergency room bed. [RETWEET THAT!]
Take Action: Tell Congress to end hunger and expand food access!
Musk melts down as Threads nears 100 million users: "Zuck is a cuck"
The billionaire tech bozo's very public tantrum over Meta's new Twitter-killer social media platform has reached fever pitch as Musk, who previously challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a steel-cage fight and has sued the Facebook founder for hiring fired ex-Twitter employees, proposed "a literal dick measuring contest.” You read that right. The world's richest man and father of nine children really wants the world to know if his pee pee is bigger than Zuckerberg's. [RETWEET THAT!]
Phoenix forced to show compliance with court order to clear "The Zone" homeless encampment
Despite a US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in 2019 that unhoused people cannot be criminalized for sleeping outside if no alternatives exist, major cities like Phoenix are nonetheless being forced to clear homeless encampments by local officials attempting to appease property owners and businesses complaining about drug activity, lewd acts, and other criminal activity outside their front doors. Evergreen reminder here: sweeping systemic problems under the proverbial rug does not simply make them go away.
Las Vegas police officer set to go on trial over $165,000 stolen in 3 casino heists
Caleb Rogers, a seven-year veteran on the force, reportedly made off with more than $85,000 in the first two robberies between November 2021 and January 2022 at casinos off the Las Vegas Strip while his police colleagues spent months trying to catch the thief. He nearly bagged an additional $79,000 in a third robbery at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in February 2022, but security guards detained him outside following a brief struggle.
House Republicans move to silence Wall Street in climate fight
Climate-change-denying Republicans who lead the House Financial Services Committee plan to spend the next few weeks holding hearings and voting on bills designed to pressure and punish corporations who dare to integrate climate and social goals into their business plans. While the committee’s bills have no chance of becoming law under President Biden, the messaging — and the industry’s response to it — will feed into a broader political conflict should Republicans manage to regain control in Washington in 2024 or beyond.
Kremlin confirms Vladimir Putin met Wagner mercenary chief in person after mutiny
The embattled Russian president met Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in Moscow, five days after the mercenary chief led an armed rebellion in the most brazen threat to Putin's decades-long iron grip on power. Putin reportedly invited 35 people to the three-hour-long meeting, where Wagner commanders allegedly pledged their allegiance to Russia and vowed to continue fighting for Putin in his brutal war against Ukraine.
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Today’s Action: Tell Congress to do MORE to reduce gun violence!
Shooting after shooting, the death count just keeps rising. We barely have time to catch our collective breath before the next massacre makes headlines. There simply aren’t adequate words to express the continued loss we all experience just by living in America. It’s long past time that we finally begin the job of curbing the epidemic of unspeakable — and very preventable — gun violence and pass the real, meaningful gun-safety reform that is supported by a clear majority of Americans. The trauma is getting old.
It’s unacceptable that after so much loss, our elected officials still haven’t managed to advance any meaningful anti-gun violence legislation through Congress. In the United States it is still legal to own an AR-15, the very killing machine that has been used time and time again to murder and maim innocent Americans en masse. AR-15-style rifles were used in the mass murders at Sandy Hook, Parkland, Aurora, Sutherland Springs, Las Vegas, San Bernardino, the Poway synagogue, the Tree of Life synagogue, the Buffalo supermarket, Uvalde, Louisville, Cleveland…the list goes on and on — and will continue to be used to massacre innocent civilians until we finally do something about it.
Call (202.224.3121) or email your representatives and demand Congress immediately take action to ban AR-15s and other assault rifles!
Assault rifles are specifically designed to kill on the battlefield; there is no good reason they should ever be in civilian hands. There were 646 mass shootings in the United States last year and 693 in 2021. Excluding suicide, there were 20,726 gun deaths in 2021, as well. According to the Washington Post, a child is shot every hour in America. We simply cannot stand idly by and let 2023 continue this horrific trend. The cause of this problem is clear — it’s the guns!
Call (202.224.3121) or email your representatives to demand Congress ban assault weapons immediately!
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